If your life were a person I would punch it in the face

[petronia]

Heroin causes RUN-ON SENTENCES and MISUSE OF PUNCTUATION but this is not irreversable APPARENTLY

Also wtf is this retcon, Derek B? Donna Summers?? sub_divided, we should touch base.

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[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

I liked how he had to invent (?) a cousin who wasn't into guitars to get The Stone Roses in there and a stolen walkman to get Desmond Dekker and Dandy Livingston in there. Unless that really is how it happened. Why does there have to be a story attached to every song discovery, isn't it enough to say that you heard something playing in an outlet mall...

Do you still think that Pete is the eclecticist, this article makes it sound like he discovered ten songs he liked by happy accident (or because he was hanging around with the musicians who'd written them) and played them over and over and over without ever getting tired of them.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

To be fair back in the day indie things didn't play in outlet malls I don't think, not beyond Bluh 'n' Noasis? Not like today where you hear Animal Collective in American Eagle Outfitters. The story I doubt is actually the Billie Holiday / Johnny Borrell one. XD Also I note he's left Carl out entirely.

I think he's an eclecticist just fine, IMO the fact that he talks about songs rather than rockist-cliche albums is encouraging! In any case I think the songs are supposed to be representative, as if someone had asked him to submit a "top tracks on your iPod" playlist and write blurbs for it. It is not unlike the sort of storytelling you get on the Fabric podcasts, where they ask famous DJs/producers to play songs that were important to them and explain why. These are usually techno/house/dub guys but they come in with Smokey Robinson or The Only Ones... God I feel awful being like "while I am glad you are off teh drucks the fact that it has improved your written English to this extent kind of freaks me out" to a person. XD;

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

So what'd you think of his gig review then? I was amused by how much it exactly matched the standard FDW gig-review format, and unsettled by "I stuck a pool cue in his throat and he flew backwards off his stool. Not one person commented on it and he himself didn't seem surprised".

I did see that each paragraph was an era, and each era was represented by songs. It also struck me that the first paragraph was written kinda like his fanzine, all jokes and short sentences, while the "heroin-addicted johnny borell and his car" paragraph was more in the mode you are thinking of, full of run-on sentences and nonsense imagery.

It's all about making sure the form is the correct one, don't you think?

Sent revised cat story to you btw. I wanted to rewrite the beginning more but the current sentences were stuck in my head. I'm thinking about leaving the first part of the story untitled, and then starting from the second part, calling it "Catlife". Please tell me this is wrong.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I got it! Should've left the house with it the other day but forgot. XD; Dude I think CATLIFE is brilliant ahahaha.